Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics

by Greville G. Corbett and Anna Kibort

This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.

Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577749
• ISBN13: 9780199577743
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"